holiday shopping

Adobe: Thanksgiving US online sales nudge up to $5.6B; Salesforce: $31.7B spent globally

Thanksgiving Thursday, when stores in the U.S. are closed and many are spending time off work, has become the de facto start of the holiday shopping season both for those looking to get bargains onlin

TechCrunch+ roundup: Fundraising under scrutiny, optimizing LTV, visa bulletin update

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Cyber Monday online sales hit a record $11.3B, driven by demand, not just inflation, says Adobe

Expectations for this year’s holiday spend online were lukewarm, but initial activity — driven by deep discounts — has bucked predictions. Cyber Monday pulled in $11.3 billion in sal

4 ways to use e-commerce data to optimize LTV pre- and post-holiday

How do you take one-and-done shoppers and turn them into loyal brand advocates? The answer lies within the treasure trove of commerce data that you collect.

Tips for e-commerce brands that want to win market share this holiday season

Companies will need to be ready to shift their strategy for discounting, inventory planning and ad and marketing spend, all while fending off potential consumer fatigue.

Thanksgiving online shopping hits record $5.1B, up 21.5% on 2019, 47% of sales via mobile

Thanksgiving for many is about eating, seeing family, reflecting and relaxing for the day. But for an increasing number of us, it also seems to be about shopping. Collectively, consumers in the U.S. s

Walmart reports lower-than-expected Q4 earnings, despite e-commerce sales growth of 35%

Walmart’s holiday quarter didn’t perform as expected. That’s the big news today from the retailer’s weak Q4 2019 earnings, which saw revenue of $141.67 billion versus the $142.

Cyber Monday totalled $9.4B in US online sales, smartphones accounted for a record $3B

Cyber Monday — the final day of the extended Thanksgiving weekend that traditionally kicks off holiday season spend — broke another e-commerce record: US shoppers racked up a total of $9.4

Online shopping on Thanksgiving hit $4.2B, up 14.5% on 2018, 45% of sales via mobile

With popular social networks seeing some downtime, most shops closed, and many people off work for Thanksgiving, bargain hunters flocked online to start their holiday shopping. Sales for the day total

The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on all of Amazon this holiday season

The holiday shopping season is finally over, and that means Amazon has some shopping data for us. This holiday season, Amazon's Echo Dot was the top-selling Amazon device, as well as the top-selling p

Cyber Monday hits record-breaking $6.59B in US online sales

This holiday e-commerce spending season is off to a flying start after Cyber Monday posted the largest-ever single day of online sales in the U.S. According to Adobe, consumers purchased $6.59 billion

More people than ever will shop online over the holidays, spending to rise by 18%

The fourth quarter is always the busiest for e-commerce businesses, with the biggest sales and more consumers than the year prior turning to the web and mobile devices to complete their holiday shopp

Holiday Shopping Season For SMBs? Not So Much

It’s an established fact that Americans love to shop during the holidays. The frenzy of rushing to the local mall or Main Street to snap up the latest “Black Friday” deals is a time-honored trad

M-Commerce Boom Over Holidays: One-Third Of E-Commerce Traffic Was Mobile; Sales Up 171%, Conversions Up 30%

According to new figures released today from mobile commerce startup <a target="_blank" href="http://www.brandingbrand.com/">Branding Brand</a>, mobile commerce over the 2012 holiday season saw major

comScore: U.S. Holiday Shoppers Spent $42.3B Online, Up 14% From Last Year

After announcing some early post-Christmas numbers, comScore just released its final analysis of U.S. online holiday spending for 2012: shoppers bought a total of $42.3 billion worth of goods online f

In UK Holiday Shopping, Mobile Devices Win Friends And Influence People To The Tune Of Nearly $7B

Over the weekend we saw how much <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/22/ibm-thanksgiving-sales-data-shows-mobile-commerce-jumping-iphoneipad-driving-19-of-traffic-social-nets-only-0-2/">mobile imp

IBM: Thanksgiving Sales Data Shows Mobile Commerce Jumping, iPhone/iPad Driving over 20% Of Traffic, Social Nets Only 0.2%

ComScore <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/07/comscore-q3-retail-e-commerce-up-15-percent-to-42b-predicts-a-very-healthy-holiday-shopping-season/">yesterday</a> predicted that e-commerce sales w

The most wanted laptop in America is…

My partiality towards Macs may have clouded my judgment in the past, but a laptop that retails for under $400 and is extremely portable is hard to overlook. That’s why the Asus Eee PC is the hottest